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One night in April 1912, a huge new (36) liner, the Titanic, was (37) the Atlantic. She was just about the most (38) ship that had ever been built. She was going very fast, which was (39) because there were icebergs around and it was very dark that night. The (40) were all having a good time when the ship suddenly (41) one of the icebergs. The ship began to (42) and the passengers tried to (43) , but there were not enough lifeboats since nobody thought they would ever be necessary. Eight white rockets were fired into the air in order to get help. Another ship, the Californian, was passing nearby. An officer and another sailor on it saw the rockets. (44) . Anyway they did wake the captain. But the captain was too sleepy to understand and the Californian just went on sailing away, in another direction. When the Titanic finally went down, (45) . They were trying to keep the passengers calm. Two thirds of the passengers were drowned. (46) .